Thursday, December 30, 2010

Reds warm up in shallows on cold winter days

The inshore waters of the Lowcountry are barren during winter compared to the spring through late fall months. But redfish stick it out for the lean, bait-deprived winter. They move onto shallow oyster and sandbar flats in schools to warm up and stay inaccessible to patrolling dolphin.

When you find them in a school (sometimes in the hundreds), it's the best inshore fishing any time of year. 

Here's a slot fish that Pate caught (last December) after we herded a school like sheepdogs for two hours, landing seven. Several were hogs over 30 inches. 


  

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